noun, verb (used with object), hanseled, hanseling or (especially British) hanselled, hanselling. 1. . [han-suh l] /ˈhæn səl/noun 1. a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise. 2. a first installment of payment. 3. the initial experience of anything; first encounter with or use of something taken as a token of what will follow; foretaste.verb (used with object), handseled, handseling or (especially British) handselled, handselling. 4. to give a handsel to. 5. to inaugurate auspiciously. 6. to use, try, or experience for the first time. /ˈhænsəl/noun, verb 1. a variant spelling of handsel /ˈhænsəl/noun 1. a gift for good luck at the beginning of a new year, new venture, etcverb (transitive) -sels, -selling, -selled (US) -sels, -seling, -seled 2. to give a handsel to (a person) 3. to begin (a venture) with ceremony; inaugurate

A story in the Grimm collection of fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel, two children abandoned in the woods, are befriended by a witch, who tries to cook and eat them, but Gretel shoves the witch into the oven instead.

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